Housing, Care and Support: Volume 18 Issue 3/4

The barriers to sustaining and scaling-up housing experiments in community-care: the Dutch experience

Hendrik Cramer, Hans Voordijk, Geert Dewulf

The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into barriers to sustaining and scaling-up housing and community-care innovations related to changing the long-term care (LTC…

Familial support impacts incarcerated women ' s housing stability

James Harris, Ruth Elwood Martin, Heather Filek, Ann C Macaulay, Jane A. Buxton, Marla Buchanan, Mo Korchinski, Veronika Moravan, Vivian Ramsden

This participatory health research project of researchers and women prisoners examined housing and homelessness as perceived by incarcerated women to understand this public health…

History of abuse and the experience of homelessness: a framework for assisting women overcome housing instability

Joseph Osuji, Sandra Hirst

The purpose of this paper is to explore the lived experiences of women without children experiencing housing instability and homelessness in Calgary, Canada; and narratives of…

Do people choose to be homeless? An existentially informed hermeneutic phenomenological analysis

Simon Wharne

Homeless populations are a politically contentious problem and researchers struggle to achieve a balanced approach. They place emphasis on sharply contrasting factors, such as;…

Measuring housing exclusion using the ETHOS typology

Gaspar Brändle, Olga García

The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough assessment of the current statistical sources in Spain, as well as new indicators that extend and improve the European Typology…

Who is left standing when the tide retreats? Negotiating hospital discharge and pathways of care for homeless people

Martin Whiteford, Glenn Simpson

The critical potential of hospital discharge policies and practices to ameliorate the health and social care needs of homeless people has become the focus of considerable interest…

Deploying telehealth with sheltered housing tenants living with COPD: a qualitative case study

Cathy Bailey, Glenda Cook, Linda Herman, Christine McMillan, Jo Rose, Roy Marston, Eleanor Binks, Emma Barron

The purpose of this paper is to report on a small telehealth pilot in local authority sheltered housing in NE England. This explored the training and capacity building needed to…